Building Team Effectiveness

By: The Inspire Podcast

In this episode, Bart Egnal speaks with Trina Boivin. Trina is Vice President of Leadership Assessment & Development at Optimum Talent, a company that collaborates with leading organizations to recruit, develop, engage, retain, and transition talent.

Listen in as they discuss what team effectiveness looks like, and how leaders can intentionally form it.

 

Here are some moments from the conversation:

Defining high performing teams (4:01)
Learning agility (5:21)
Feedback - less event based and more experience based (7:07)
Speed - and leveraging mistakes (7:45)
Story that illustrates how lack of accountability costs a lot (10:21)
The costs of poor communication (13:08)
A change in mandate and operating model (14:27)
The difficulties of going 'virtual' (14:41)
Strategies for building trust virtually (15:22)
Changing norms with remote working (16:49)
Dealing with new team members (17:24)
How to integrate new people (19:41)
Advice to leaders (21:11)
Servant leadership (21:45)
Get to know your people better (23:36)
Where else can people go for resources (25:45)